Manisha Sahasrabudhe is Senior Director of Product at Harness, leading the development of their Internal Developer Platform (IDP). With over a decade in DevOps and platform engineering, she focuses on building tools that boost developer productivity and streamline cloud-native software delivery.

Prithvi Raj is a Community Manager & Developer Advocate at Mirantis, working with the Open Source Program Office team. He is a CNCF Ambassador with over 5 years of experience, having helped scale a CNCF-incubating project in LitmusChaos, and runs the Platform & Resilience Engineering Meetup group. He is an active member at SIG Project Reviews and is currently leading the community efforts for the k0s project, k0rdent, OpenSDN, and the other OSS initiatives Mirantis is contributing to.

He is a co-organizer of KCD Bengaluru and has previously organized Chaos Carnival, LitmusChaosCon, and KCD Chennai.
He was previously at Harness, ChaosNative, and MayaData.

As chief product officer at CloudBees, Shawn Ahmed embodies the nexus of product engineering and marketing. With a firm hand on the reins of the CloudBees product portfolio, Shawn meticulously crafts product and solution delivery, pricing, strategic planning, competitive landscape analysis, and market management. Shawn joined CloudBees in 2018 and has held various leadership positions before stepping into the CPO role. Shawn has catalyzed a transformative shift, evolving the company’s culture and operations into a buyer-centric, value-focused DevOps leader.

Ram Iyengar has been breaking and occasionally fixing software for 15 years. As an engineer and educator obsessed with open source and security, he's a perpetual tinkerer, constantly pushing the boundaries of what's possible (and sometimes what's advisable). He also occasionally emerges from his lab to build communities and share his hard-won wisdom. Approach with caution (and maybe a bug report).

As an experienced trusted advisor to CTO/CIO/CSO with a proven track record of driving digital transformation and mentoring high-performing teams, I am dedicated to leveraging cutting-edge technologies to solve complex business challenges and drive sustainable growth.

• Visionary Technology Leader: With over 2 decades of experience in the tech industry, I have a deep understanding of emerging trends and a keen ability to translate business requirements into innovative, scalable technology solutions.
• Global Team Leadership: Proven track record in managing, scaling global teams, and delivering cloud transformations of well over $45m
• Mentorship & Scaling: Mentored enterprise architects and built vertical practice teams to scale initiatives across regions, ensuring alignment and consistent results.
• Pre-Sales Leadership: Led over 50 pre-sales engagements, driving $45M ARR growth in cloud adoption and migrations.
• Strategic Business Partner: I have a strong track record of aligning technology roadmaps with overarching business objectives, enabling organizations to stay ahead of the curve and maintain a competitive edge in rapidly evolving markets.
• Commercial Acumen and Negotiation Skills: I excel at understanding the relative importance of cost in different parts of the business, and can make strategic decisions on which areas require in-house investment and which can be safely outsourced.
• Financial Services Domain Expertise: Deep understanding of the financial services industry, including regulatory requirements, digital banking, and cloud-based innovations tailored to the sector.

Matt Flug is a research manager within IDC’s Cloud Application Deployment Platforms research practice. Matt’s research focuses on software vendors, cloud providers, and end-customers' software development/deployment plans and experiences. He is responsible for insights and analysis on emerging Platform as a Service (PaaS) solutions that support developers deploying highly performant, modern, and cloud-native applications.